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Recurrent neural networks have a strong inductive bias towards learning temporally compressed representations, as the entire history of a sequence is represented by a single vector. By contrast, Transformers have little inductive bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Aniket Didolkar , Kshitij Gupta , Anirudh Goyal , Nitesh B. Gundavarapu , Alex Lamb , Nan Rosemary Ke , Yoshua Bengio

This paper presents Hyper-VIB, a hypernetwork-enhanced information bottleneck (IB) approach designed to enable efficient task-oriented communications in 6G collaborative intelligent systems. Leveraging IB theory, our approach enables an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Jingchen Peng , Chaowen Deng , Yili Deng , Boxiang Ren , Lu Yang

Modern applications require lightweight neural network models. Most existing neural network pruning methods focus on removing unimportant filters; however, these may result in the loss of statistical information after pruning due to failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiang Liu , Mingchen Li , Xia Li , Leigang Qu , Guansu Wang , Zifan Peng , Yijun Song , Zemin Liu , Linshan Jiang , Jialin Li

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved significant breakthroughs in various fields. However, these advancements have led to a substantial increase in the complexity and size of these networks. This poses a challenge when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ahmed Sadaqa , Di Liu

The information bottleneck principle is an elegant and useful approach to representation learning. In this paper, we investigate the problem of representation learning in the context of reinforcement learning using the information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Pei Yingjun , Hou Xinwen

Attention mechanisms have revolutionized sequence learning but suffer from quadratic computational complexity. This paper introduces \model, a novel recurrent neural network (RNN) mechanism that leverages the inherent low-rank structure of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Mahdi Karami , Razvan Pascanu , Vahab Mirrokni

Variational dimensionality reduction methods are widely used for their accuracy, generative capabilities, and robustness. We introduce a unifying framework that generalizes both such as traditional and state-of-the-art methods. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Eslam Abdelaleem , Ilya Nemenman , K. Michael Martini

Embedded and personal IoT devices are powered by microcontroller units (MCUs), whose extreme resource scarcity is a major obstacle for applications relying on on-device deep learning inference. Orders of magnitude less storage, memory and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Edgar Liberis , Nicholas D. Lane

Due to the substantial computational cost, training state-of-the-art deep neural networks for large-scale datasets often requires distributed training using multiple computation workers. However, by nature, workers need to frequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Yusuke Tsuzuku , Hiroto Imachi , Takuya Akiba

In supervised learning, understanding an input's proximity to the training data can help a model decide whether it has sufficient evidence for reaching a reliable prediction. While powerful probabilistic models such as Gaussian Processes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Ifigeneia Apostolopoulou , Benjamin Eysenbach , Frank Nielsen , Artur Dubrawski

The deployment of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many real world applications is largely hindered by their high computational cost. In this paper, we propose a novel learning scheme for CNNs to simultaneously 1) reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Zhuang Liu , Jianguo Li , Zhiqiang Shen , Gao Huang , Shoumeng Yan , Changshui Zhang

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a relevant inference task in many mobile applications. State-of-the-art HAR at the edge is typically achieved with lightweight machine learning models such as decision trees and Random Forests (RFs),…

The rise of mobile AI accelerators allows latency-sensitive applications to execute lightweight Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on the client side. However, critical applications require powerful models that edge devices cannot host and must…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Alireza Furutanpey , Philipp Raith , Schahram Dustdar

With the growth of neural network size, model compression has attracted increasing interest in recent research. As one of the most common techniques, pruning has been studied for a long time. By exploiting the structured sparsity of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Chengyu Xia , Danny H. K. Tsang , Vincent K. N. Lau

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), as a form of deep generative model, have been widely used in recent years, and shown great great peformance in a number of different domains, including image generation and anomaly detection, etc.. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Liang Cheng , Peiyuan Guan , Amir Taherkordi , Lei Liu , Dapeng Lan

This paper investigates the adversarial robustness of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) using Information Bottleneck (IB) objectives for task-oriented communication systems. We empirically demonstrate that while IB-based approaches provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Alireza Furutanpey , Pantelis A. Frangoudis , Patrik Szabo , Schahram Dustdar

We introduce a modality-agnostic neural compression algorithm based on a functional view of data and parameterised as an Implicit Neural Representation (INR). Bridging the gap between latent coding and sparsity, we obtain compact latent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-10 Jonathan Richard Schwarz , Jihoon Tack , Yee Whye Teh , Jaeho Lee , Jinwoo Shin

Recently, deep learning has become a de facto standard in machine learning with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) demonstrating spectacular success on a wide variety of tasks. However, CNNs are typically very demanding computationally at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Yochai Zur , Chaim Baskin , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Brian Chmiel , Itay Evron , Alex M. Bronstein , Avi Mendelson

We propose a simple but effective data-driven channel pruning algorithm, which compresses deep neural networks in a differentiable way by exploiting the characteristics of operations. The proposed approach makes a joint consideration of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Minsoo Kang , Bohyung Han

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown promising results on a broad spectrum of applications. Most empirical studies of GNNs directly take the observed graph as input, assuming the observed structure perfectly depicts the accurate and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Qingyun Sun , Jianxin Li , Hao Peng , Jia Wu , Xingcheng Fu , Cheng Ji , Philip S. Yu